I keep getting sidetracked
For some reason, I have this trait that I'm always having five different side projects cooking up in my brain. Whether it's a GPT powered indie game I'm making just to prove myself I can make it, or I want to make or a brand new thing, starting my 34th new Laravel project, I always alternatively keep getting and losing interest into working on my existing project(s).
Statix Updates
That doesn't mean I wasn't working on Statix. These months I've been slowly but surely working on a back-office system where you can manage your websites.
Website and connection management 😎
As you'll be able to manage multiple websites with Statix, you need a place to overview all the websites you manage, create new and maybe even delete old websites:
Adding a new website is easy as filling out a form:
...and setting up a SFTP connection:
...or a Github connection?
Out of the box Statix will support 4 types of connections to your website file system: ftp(s), sftp, Github and AWS S3. In the future, I might expand these, but I think this is more than enough for the beginning.
Front-end editor 😵💫
I've been battling a huge battle with my browser in order to allow you, as the web site owner, to make changes directly on the website itself. Always tightening rules around including and running code from 3rd party web sites are slowly but surely strangling my desire to work on this. The battle is not over, though, and I've been working on alternatives. Like assigning each web site a subdomain on Statix, and then opening your web site pages from that subdomain with the editor loaded. We'll see where I'll go with that.
HTML5 DOM manipulation in PHP 🤯
Another issue for me is rather catastrophic support of the latest stable PHP (8.3 at the moment of writing this text) to parse and modify HTML5 DOM, which is a core functionality of Statix. I've been playing with several different HTML5 DOM manipulation libraries for PHP, and I'm yet to decide which one to stick with. Or maybe I'll work on other stuff (like the above-shown back-office which is, at the moment, just a series of unconnected blade templates) until PHP 8.4 is stable enough to take advantage of it's support for HTML5 DOM.
Conclusion
I'm slow, I know. But I have a bunch of ideas and I'm trying to make some of them work, Statix included. Besides that, I have a real life with a full time job and with real life problems. But know I will keep returning to work on Statix regularly. I hope I will also keep posting here as regularly as possible.
P.S. The GPT-powered game I linked above uses PuterJS, a cloud and AI JS library from the authors of puter.com (a web based browser operating system). Among other things, it supports GPT integration (like ChatGPT), but also cloud file hosting and actually web site hosting. I already have some ideas 🤔 maybe even connect it with Statix somehow 🤔🤔🤔
